Priveleged Quotes

#1. The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

Mark Twain

#2. Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope.

Heinz Pagels

#3. Those who analogize the federal budget to a family's budget must know nothing about either.

Robert Reich

#4. Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Pope John Paul II

#5. From the cross-cultural hermeneutical point of view, there is just one philosophy, which has been practiced at various times and places around the world. From this perspective, comparing Nietzsche and Zen is not fundamentally different from comparing Nietzsche to Plato.

Andre Van Der Braak

#6. Once in a while, I bump into a knitter, and we have a lovely conversation. But if you figure out the number of people who know me and the people who don't, it's really a small number.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#7. Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself.

Richard Rohr

#8. The capability definition is: "the ability and capacity to realize a measurable result in a specific operational context of conditions.

Pearl Zhu

#9. If I had the Rangers payroll, I'd never lose a game

Glen Sather

#10. Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed ... It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.

Richard Wright

#11. Everyday in heat, rain or cold, I ran - alone in the woods - in the hills near our home. There I felt the gentle touch of God. I head Him whisper, 'You're stronger now. It's time to tell the truth of what happened. Tell your story to give hope to others.

Nikki Rosen